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Publishing Sustainability Research Visually: A Film about the Opportunities and Challenges of a Rural Entrepreneurship Initiative in Kenya

Ness, Barry; Akerman, Ann - In: Challenges in Sustainability 1 (2013) 2, pp. 80-81

We have witnessed a large increase in the number of publications on sustainability challenges over the past decade. One … important characteristic of the research is with the wide variety of actors that can make use of the results. Sustainability …-makers in a diversity of societal facets and sectors. It is therefore essential that the sustainability research community have …

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Inequality,Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries: Sustainability Implications

Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

dimensions of sustainability. Yet, no country has achieved the patterns of consumption and production that could sustain global … for adjusted social and environmental sustainability measures of growth in these economies. Using Global Income …

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Global Insecurity,Transparency and Sustainable Development:African Challenges

NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Notably, the 20th century was dominated by the legacy of devastating global wars, colonial struggles, and ideological conflicts as well as effort s to establish international systems that would foster global peace and prosperity. Yet, insecurity and corruption not only remain, they have become...

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Ecosystem Management: Tomorrow’s Approach to Enhancing Food Security under a Changing Climate

Munang, Richard Tingem; Thiaw, Ibrahim; Rivington, Mike - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 7, pp. 937-954

ecosystem valuation, protection, management and restoration; and that ecosystem management be integrated in climate change and …

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Towards an Integrated Framework for SDGs: Ultimate and Enabling Goals for the Case of Energy

Nilsson, Måns; Lucas, Paul; Yoshida, Tetsuro - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 10, pp. 4124-4151

Discussions on how to define, design, and implement sustainable development goals (SDG) have taken center stage in the United Nations since the Rio+20 summit. Energy is one of the issues that enjoyed consensus, before and after Rio, as an important area for SDGs to address. Many proposals have...

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Leveraging Fuel Subsidy Reform for Transition in Yemen

Breisinger, Clemens; Engelke, Wilfried; Ecker, Olivier - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 11, pp. 2862-2887

Yemen is currently undergoing a major political transition, yet many economic challenges—including fuel subsidy reform—remain highly relevant. To inform the transition process with respect to a potential subsidy reform, we use a dynamic computable general equilibrium and microsimulation...

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Focal Areas for Measuring the Human Well-Being Impacts of a Conservation Initiative

Leisher, Craig; Samberg, Leah H.; Buekering, Pieter Van; … - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 3, pp. 997-1010

Within conservation, the need to measure the impacts on people from conservation initiatives such as projects and programs is growing, but understanding and measuring the multidimensional impacts on human well-being from conservation initiatives is complex. To understand the constituent...

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The Social Impact of Globalization in the Developing Countries

Lee, Eddy; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper an ex-post measurable definition of globalization has been used, namely increasing trade openness and FDI. A general result is that the optimistic Heckscher- Ohlin/Stolper-Samuelson predictions do not apply, that is neither employment creation nor the decrease in within-country...

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Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy

Klasen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition, and child mortality in developing countries. While there is, as expected, a close aggregate correlation between these measures of deprivation, the measures generate some...

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Poverty and Vulnerability - An Interdisciplinary Approach

Makoka, Donald; Kaplan, Marcus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This paper describes the concepts of poverty and vulnerability as well as the interconnections and differences between them using an interdisciplinary approach. While poverty is a static concept, vulnerability has a forward-looking dimension. We, therefore, review the methodologies that...

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